NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3375 points

14177 points

320% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

61 FPS

342 FPS

281 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

55 FPS

168 FPS

113 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

245 FPS

199 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

42 FPS

135 FPS

93 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5999 points

19628 points

227% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.71 points

5580.42 points

898% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

46955 points

235513 points

401% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46870 points

209081 points

346% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

131975 points

126% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49707 points

191836 points

285% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

58341 points

173043 points

196% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1468 MHz

7% slightly higher core clock speed

1370 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1468 MHz

1665 MHz

13% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

8 GiB

12 GiB

49% significantly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

384 Bit

49% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

320.3 GB/s

912.4 GB/s

184% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

110 W

218% significantly lower TDP

350 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

93.95 Gigapixels/s

186.5 Gigapixels/s

98% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

234.9 Gigatexels/s

532.8 Gigatexels/s

126% significantly higher texture rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

7.52 TFLOPS

34.1 TFLOPS

353% significantly better floating point performance

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

10240

300% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

320

100% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

112

75% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

141st of 586

22nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5X

GDDR6X

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.1

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q vs GeForce RTX 3080 Ti benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti beats the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. Despite this, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

Furthermore, the spec sheet for both these GPUs show that the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti has significantly more memory with 12 GiB of memory compared to 8 GiB. Lots of memory is good when playing at high resolutions or with many monitors.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q has a significantly lower TDP at 110 W when compared to the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti at 350 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti over the GeForce GTX 1080 Max-Q.